Hope

Some of the Jews still said their prayers. Some still held out hope. "God is testing us" they said. How long could I have held out hope? How long until I let my circumstances make me into an unthinking unfeeling beast of burden? If my family had been taken, my clothes taken, my name taken, would I have let them take hope as well? Hope was the only thing left that they could keep. The one thing that could not be taken away from them. It seems easy to ask a million "what if's" but those questions cannot be answered so I think they are better left unasked. Instead I am going to be more thankful for the child hood I was able to enjoy.